On Jan 20, 6:43*am, "Larry L" wrote:
Like most tiers I've met, I have a lot of stuff ( materials) that seldom if
ever gets used. * *
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For instance, I have 4 or 5 different furs died to nearly identical colors ...
and in several colors, of course

Can anyone tell me why I might want to use Angora Goat, or Australian
Opposum, *instead of rabbit or hares ear in exactly the same color? * *The
texture differences are there but, to be honest, I don't know what value
they might have. * I don't fish nymphs much and certainly don't need to
stock many 'wet fly' materials, but which ones ???? G

There are no Australian opossum, just labels with that printed on
'em ;-)

The angora is a much longer in fibre (at least the stuff I have is)
and
probably more suited to making larger wets/nymphs I would have
thought.
But if you don't do them much ...

(You can get a fair bit of fine dubbing off a hare's mask, btw, and
also some longer soft fibres almost completely unlike angora. ;-)

Some fine (rabbit or possum) plus some coarse (hares ear assuming its
the coarse packaged stuff)
of the same colour would cover your needs I would have thought.


I have set the goal of reducing my 'traveling materials" down to 1/3 the
volume of years past. * *That shouldn't be difficult, since what I actually
use, over and over all summer is a very small number of materials. *

Sounds like you've got it sussed.

But then why am I so relcutant to take out stuff I've never used since the week
I bought it, maybe 15 years ago ?

Do you have to? Sounds like you can leave a lot at home in storage.


Steve